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Then there's no point in having the useless Recovery partition which boots into a Win7 disk anyway, because you can't boot it if Win7 fails to start. You'd need to use F8 or the Win7 disk or Repair CD.

If I were you I'd delete the useless System Reserved and Recovery partitons which you made and ignore the 15gb until your disk fills up and its needed which is unlikely.

Yes, then reboot to make sure that Boot Menu has gone away. You can delete the unneeded Recovery partition from Dual Boot menu in msconfig>Boot if it doesn't go away when deleted. But don't delete the Win7 listing or it won't boot.

Clean install error Windows cannot install required files.This is what is happening. A friend gave me his DELL Inspririon 531 2007 Desktop. It has a pirated copy of 7 ultimate x64 (which I am not sure if this supports 64 bit). Prior to looking into how old the machine was, I was able to install 8.1 64 bit. But it wouldn't allow me to install any drivers...

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How can I do a clean erase of my SSD to clean install Windows 7?I think I have a virus or malware and have been unable to get rid of it after many tries, and I am having multiple problems with this home built computer running Windows 7Pro 64bit. I installed a retail version of Windows 7Pro 64bit and I have my original installation disk. I want to do a clean...

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Clean Install of Win7 - Wipe Hard Drive CleanHi Folks,
I just did a clean install of Win7 and must have done something wrong. I found a file called Windows.old.:confused:
I would like to wipe my hard drive completely clean and then install a fresh copy of Windows 7 Home Premium.
How do I accomplish this task? It's a good time to...

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Boot config not working, tried clean install, can't install windows 7My spouses pc all of a sudden wouldn't boot, not into safe mode or anything (vista), and so we were going to upgrade anyways to windows 7, so i bought the upgrade windows 7 and attempted to do a clean install and reformatted the c: drive which has 250gb, and each time i start the install it bogs...